There is a basketball court on the top floor of the U.S. Supreme Court Building. It’s known as the “highest court in the land.”
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Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in Saint Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
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Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender.
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The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
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According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30 billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
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US eggs would be illegal in a British supermarket because they are washed. British eggs are illegal in US markets because they’re unwashed.
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You can't plow a cotton field with an elephant in North Carolina.
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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